31 July 2009

Last chance to enter Eye’s awards for the creative use of library images

It’s your last chance to enter Just Add Stock – Eye magazine’s awards for designs that use library images: photographs, movie clips or illustrations. Anyone can take part, and it’s free to enter: click on the link NOW to download your entry form – the deadline is today, 31 July 09.

30 July 2009

At home with Marian Bantjes, subject of Eye 72’s Reputations interview

The summer issue, Eye 72, includes a Reputations interview with Marian Bantjes, with a portrait by photographer Andrew Querner (see opening spread, bottom). Here are some pictures that Andrew took of Marian’s studio, along with her captions.

29 July 2009

Get your entries in for Eye’s new awards before the deadline of 31 July

Just Add Stock is Eye magazine’s awards project for print or online designs that use stock imagery. Anyone can take part, and it’s free to enter. The awards are for commissioned design work (made since Jan 08) that uses photographs, illustrations and/or film clips from any image library worldwide. There are nine categories: click on the link to download an entry form while there’s still time before the deadline of 31 July 09.

28 July 2009

Blank Screen Syndrome, writes David Thompson, is an exhibition/retrospective of work by Phil Wolstenholme, whose computer-generated images and animations have been used by, among others, Warp Records, Gavin Bryars and The Designers Republic (See Reputations, Eye 71). Of these early album sleeves and promotional images, Warp’s Artificial Intelligence compilations are perhaps the most familiar.

27 July 2009

Sitting next to a self-absorbed Telegraph reader on the train last week I was reminded of the public transport of fifteen or twenty years ago, similarly packed and stuffy, but full of broadsheet readers of every political stripe.